Umphrey Lee

Umphrey Lee (1893–1958) was the President of Southern Methodist University from 1939 to 1954.^[1][2]

Biography

Umphrey Lee was born in Oakland City, Indiana on March 23, 1893.^[1][2] He attended Daniel Baker College from 1910 to 1912, received a B.A from Trinity University in 1914, an M.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1916, and a PhD from Columbia University in 1931.^[1][2] He worked as a Methodist pastor.^[1] In 1919, he established the Wesley Bible Chair at the University of Texas.^[1][2] In 1923, he became the pastor of Highland Park Methodist Church, on the Southern Methodist University campus, and taught homiletics.^[1] From 1937 to 1939, he became Dean of the School of Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.^[1][2] He served as President of Southern Methodist University from 1939 to 1954.^[1][2] He was the first Chancellor of SMU from 1954 to 1958.^[2]

He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the American Historical Society, the American Society of Church History, and the Philosophical Society of Texas.^[1]

Bibliography

• The Lord's Horseman (1928)
• John Wesley and Modern Religion (1936)
• Our Fathers and Us (The Heritage of the Methodists) (1958)

References